Happy Pregnancy - Postpartum Depression

My daughter has always been a happy child growing up. She has always had a great sense of humor and was always able to make anyone smile. Everyone enjoyed being around her and had many friends throughout her school years. We always reminded her that the song that was playing when she was brought into this world was "Don't Worry Be Happy". It almost seemed like that song was made for her.

She became pregnant a few months after she turned 17 and decided that she wanted to keep the baby. I told her I would support her 100%, as I was also a young mother when I had her. Her pregnancy was by far the norm; she had two surgeries prior to getting pregnant for cervical cancer and the doctor warned her she may not be able to get pregnant. Needless to say on her first appointment with the doctor, he was stunned that she had gotten pregnant and told us that since she was able to get pregnant that now we had to make sure that she was capable of carrying full term. She had her regular doctor appointments every 3 weeks amongst many visits for blood work and about 3 times as many ultrasounds.

Thirty eight weeks later on her regular doctor visit, he told her to go to the hospital that she was going to have the baby. Her lab work came back that she was becoming toxic and her blood pressure was extremely high. It was already pre-planned that she was going to give birth via cesarean section. I now have a beautiful, healthy grandson whose face lights up every time he smiles. He reminds me of his mother this way.

In the following weeks of his birth, I noticed changes in my daughter. She was happy occasionally but for the most part she seemed miserable and didn't enjoy life. She loved and cherished the baby as much as anyone could, but every opportunity she had, she was sleeping or eating. She was finding things to fight about with her boyfriend or myself. If he looked at her the wrong way, she was off crying and sometimes throwing things at him. There were many arguments after his birth.